Summary:
The high-school list for Saddle Mountain Unified School District contains one school, Tonopah Valley High School, which serves grades 7–12 and enrolls 869 students. The main concern is that its proficiency rates are below the state’s in every reported subject: in 2025–26, all-grades ELA was 16% versus 41% statewide, the largest gap at 25 percentage points; math was 13% versus 33%, a 20-point gap.
With just one school listed, Tonopah Valley High School is the only local option, rather than one school standing out above another. Its grade 11 results show the same state-level pattern: ELA proficiency was 16%, 22 points below the state’s 38%, while math was 13%, 18 points below the state’s 31%. ELA is farther behind the state than math in both comparisons. Grade 11 science is a relative bright spot against the district, at 7% compared with 6%, but remains below the state’s 19%.
SchoolDigger’s rankings place the school near the lower end of its statewide comparison groups: it received one star in each of the three reported years, while its percentile moved from 15th in 2023–24 to 12th in 2025–26. That three-point decline signals weaker relative standing, but does not show that test scores themselves fell. The student-teacher ratio is 21:1, and the reported dropout rate is 2.5%, close to the district’s 2.6% and below the state’s 5% (a 3-point gap). No free/reduced-lunch rate is reported. Because there is only one listed school and no multi-year proficiency series, the data cannot show local school-to-school differences or a test-score trend.
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